Re: default port number

Thank you, Kevin Kempter.
Thank you, Kevin Grittner,

In order for me to accept foreign odbc connection,
one of the things I must to is to change
listen_addresses = 'localhost'
to something like:
listen_addresses = 'ip-address-A, ip-address-B'

But those machines on the list are dhcp clients
and their ip addresses change from time to time.
Is there something I can do to accomodate such
moving targets?

Regards,

Tena Sakai
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org on behalf of Kevin Kempter
Sent: Tue 9/4/2007 10:09 AM
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] default port number

On Tuesday 04 September 2007 10:59:38 Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I had been running postgres with postgresql.conf file
> as little changed as possible from distributed version.
> And lately I became a bit curious as well as confused.
>
> In my configuration file both lines
> #listen_addresses = 'localhost'
> and
> #port = 5432
> are commented out.
>
> What does this mean? Is postgress listening on port
> 5432?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tena Sakai
> tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

The above values are the defaults, postgres should be listening on port 5432
and only listening on localhost for connections. You can double check by
running these commands in a psql session:

show listen_addresses ;

show port ;

/Kevin

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